Once, a hungry porcupine saw a big sugar cane field. As he was about to eat the sugar cane, a dog growled at him. The field belonged to a judge. The porcupine begged, “Let me eat as I am starving.” The kind dog said, “All right; but spare the roots so the plants can grow again.” But the hungry porcupine ate the roots too! When the judge came there, he was furious. The clever porcupine said, “Let the matter be settled in the court.” The porcupine waited for winter. When he went to the court, the dog was shivering with cold. The porcupine said, “Sir! The sugar cane was eaten by him. See how he trembles out of guilt.” When the judge asked the dog to say something, the dog could not speak out of cold. Taking his silence as an admission of being guilty, the judge kicked him out of the house.
Moral: Think twice before you help a cunning fellow.
The Poor Dog
